Pioneering nature-based solutions to global challenges

Today the world faces enormous challenges such as tackling climate change and ensuring food, nutrition and water security.

Nature can play a strong role in tackling these challenges. Nature’s solutions are at our fingertips, they are cost-effective and we know how to implement them.

IUCN pioneered nature-based solutions at the UN climate negotiations. We continue to promote them to mitigate and adapt to climate change, secure water, food and energy supplies, reduce poverty and drive economic growth.

Around the world we are working with governments, the private sector and communities to put the latest science and knowledge into practice. We are helping to restore forests, rivers and wetlands, and bring our oceans back to life.

We know that well managed, healthy and diverse ecosystems and the biological resources they encompass are critical for a healthy, safe and prosperous world.

10 July 2013 – Caux, Switzerland. The heads of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today signed an agreement aimed at drawing global attention to the value of drylands and their threatened status as ecosystems. …